In 2007, the mixed-use development known as Tokyo Midtown was complete and unveiled to the public. The location of where Tokyo Midtown is at was once the home of the Mori clan during the Edo period. And when the site was then took over by Read More …
I’m often asked by people of what is the establishment with the Space Invaders character (more of a pop culture icon) in Japan. The store is called Taito Station and Space Invaders was a Taito arcade video game created by Tomohiro Nishikado back in 1978. Read More …
Located at Ueno Park is the shinto shrine, Tosho-gu. The shrine is where Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, the third and last of the shogunai governments in Japanese history, is enshrined. It’s important to note that there is not one but around Read More …
As a fan of silent film, you eventually begin to read about what happened to the careers or the individuals, the stars of the silent era. From Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon Jr., Clara Bow, Mary Pickford, the Talmadge sisters and many Read More …
Memorial Event for Wayne S. Graczyk Noon to 2 PM., Saturday, May 20, 2017 Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan You are invited to celebrate the life of Wayne Graczyk, longtime columnist for The Japan Times and Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) member. Wayne passed away on Read More …
This weekend I was at Los Angeles and attended the 15th Annual Korea Times Music Festival @ the Hollywood Bowl. I’ll do more of a write-up when I get back and get situated but for now, please enjoy my latest Random Musings video from the Read More …
Francois Truffaut, one of the founders of the French New Wave, has come off a string of successful films from his 1959 hit “The 400 Blows” and the 1960 film “Shoot the Piano Player”. But in 1962, Truffaut was in love with Henri-Pierre Roche’s semi-autobiographical Read More …
In the United States, we are accustomed to ordering online for baseball gear these days and while sports shop retailers still exist, you have your department stores that sell baseball gloves and some who go online to find really awesome quality baseball gloves such as Read More …
It was a few weeks ago that I was promoting Wayne Graczyk’s latest Japan Pro Baseball Fan Handbook & Media Guide and today, I have learned that Wayne had passed away after a game in Kumamoto, helping NTV to cover a game between the Yomiuri Read More …
1964. Jean-Luc Godard has had another success with his fifth film “Bande a part” (Band of Outsiders) and began his sixth feature film “Une femme mariée: Fragments D’un Film Tourne En 1964 en Noir et Blanc” (A Married Woman: Fragments from a film from 1964 Read More …
Mission is really making a name for themselves with their thermoregulation products. From Serena Williams, Drew Brees to Damon Wade, the marketing campaign has been positive and its working. Their goal to create cooling accessories engineered for athletes to keep them cool during high-intensity training Read More …
In my effort to visit every NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) stadium and official team store, I headed to Nagoya prefecture to visit Nagoya Dome and the official Chunichi Dragons team store (or Chunichi Dragons Nagoya Site Good Shop). For those not familiar with the Chunichi Read More …
Today’s cinema blog post goes to “Der Blaue Angel” (The Blue Angel) directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich. A film I am currently reviewing. “The Blue Angel” is a fantastic pre-code film in which filmmaker Josef von Sternberg combines Read More …
Back in 2012, Engineerable launched FocusShifter, a follow focus for DSLR cameras and an improved design with counterbalance in 2013. The group unveiled their latest DSLR-related project known as the LensShifter which they put up on Kickstarter which they designed, prototyped and manufactured. The LensShifter Read More …
When it comes to sports, if there was one team I show my strong affinity of fandom, it would be the New York Yankees. My home office is literally displaying my love for the New York Yankees. Was I always a New York Yankees fan Read More …
As a big fan of Japanese pro baseball (NPB – Nippon Professional Baseball), I’m often asked how one can get into Japanese baseball. And most importantly, something they can follow because they can’t read or speak Japanese. I always recommend connecting with fans on the Read More …
“Incendies” is one of those films that stays in your head for quite awhile. Powerful, moving, shocking… I have to admit that it gave me that “WOW!” feeling that a film such as “The Shawshank Redemption” gave be back in 1994, unpredictable climax and a Read More …
